Schneiderman ousted from national mortgage settlement talks

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been removed as a leader of a panel negotiating a settlement with U.S. mortgage servicers, Bloomberg News reported, after he was accused of trying to undermine the work of the group.

“New York has actively worked to undermine the very same multi-state group that it had spent the previous nine months working very closely with,” said Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is leading the state group. For a member of the executive committee, that “simply doesn’t make sense, is unprecedented, and is unacceptable.”